International Contacts
- Nepal: Prof Dinesh Chapagain; Professor Lekhnath S Pathak (University of Kathmandu and QUEST Nepal); Himal Gautam (Chairman - SQC GlobalNet Nepal)
- Turkey: Professor Hayal Koksal (ICT Seagulls)
- Brazil: Professor Michele Beloto
- Italy: Professor Francesco Marcaletti
- Mauritius: UNESCO Fellow Priya Darshini Baligadoo
Problems
- Lack of major student participation inside the classroom
- Students having difficulties to overcome shyness and fears (e.g. of oral presentations)
- Lack of better communication between lecturers, staff and students
- Lack of major integration between students of different ethnicities (ethnical groups very visible)
- Excessive amount of material posted online by some lecturers as opposed to lack of material by others
- Some material used to teach students in need of revision
- Lack of major cooperation and communication between academics in their own department, which can result in misleading information
- Lack of major cooperation and communication amongst students outside workgroups
- Low use of Blackboard tools
Literature
- A Perspective from a Students’ Quality Circle (Nahai, Osterberg and Ennals, 2011)
- A Tale of Two Sub-Continents: Trip Report on Nepal and Denmark (Ennals, 2010)
- Creating Collaborative Advantage: Action Research (Ennals, 2010)
- Creating Collaborative Advantage: Students Quality Circles (Ennals, 2010)
- Quality Circle for Life: A Quest for Possibility (Pathak)
- Training of Facilitators for Civic Action Teams (NPCC)
Success is to be measured
- By the growing number of SQC groups inside the university
- By the creation of staff quality circle within the university
- By the growing interest in SQC by universities from other countries (e.g. Brazil and Italy)
